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Neil K. Hess
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 Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 9:30 pm Post subject: Tips and techniques in script analysis |
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What are some of your go to strategies for script analysis?
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Bish
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I'd written a paragraph on the need for a practical analysis of the mechanics of the language... and will it translate to being read aloud. However, I threw that out, and decided to simply state my two most important questions...
1) Who am I?
2) Who am I talking to?
Nail that, and the rest should fall into place.
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todd ellis
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Neil asks very good questions. In fact, I have come to believe that he is not a noob, but both woodward and bernstein researching the darkest corners of the voiceover world.
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Bish
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So, Todd... what you're really saying here is that Neil is quite possibly an undercover Philip putting us through our paces.
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Neil K. Hess
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...drat...they're on to me...
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todd ellis
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Have you ever seen them both in the same place at the same time?
I thought not.
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Yonie
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What the heck am I actually talking about? What sentences or words support my intuition or guess?
One of the best tips I got, from Richard Horvitz -- among many others, but he hammered it in -- was: don't add any ideas or backstory that's not supported by the actual story. Lots of people seem to do that one.
OH! And another thing he hammered in: make a choice and then let the words do the work. You don't necessarily have to ACT, IN ETERNAL GRANDEUR AND HAMMINESS!
Trust your voice; and believe me, as a high tenor that one is sometimes very tough for me. |
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ConnieTerwilliger
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I usually glance at the script on my incoming computer. Get up and go into the booth - get the hamsters spinning - and read the script aloud into the microphone. My brain does something in the background and usually it turns out OK.
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Bailey
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| todd ellis wrote: | | ... but both woodward and bernstein researching the darkest corners of the voiceover world. |
And if you play your cards right, you may be asked to voice the audio book.
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